Philip D. Harvey Books

Phil Harvey’s short stories won the Antietam Review award and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His fiction has appeared in over a dozen literary magazines including Phantasmagoria, The MacGuffin, Natural Bridge, and the Dos Passos Review. His first novel, Show Time, was hailed as “a thinking reader’s thriller and a thoroughly entertaining read.” Follow a hard–driving smoke jumper, seven starving reality game–show participants, a virginal surrogate mother, and an enemy combatant in this collection of nuanced contemporary tales.

This collection from one of the most influential figures in the sex industry thrills readers with budding innocence, freeing adventures, and dangerous erotic games. The collection includes Bait and Switch, a tale of swapping that received the Antietam Review’s literary award.Award-winning author Phil Harvey is the president of Adam & Eve, one of the world’s leading suppliers of sex toys, adult films and condoms. Because a substantial amount of “the sex factory’s” profits finance family planning around the world, Mother Jones dubbed Harvey a “hard-core philanthropist.”

In the words of award-winning author Phil Harvey, "We rarely recognize the extent to which human happiness requires emotional struggle." That's amply demonstrated in this moving collection, which explores love and the relationships it spawns--with lovers, parents, children, friends, and neighbors. From headline-making issues to everyday jealousies to acts of tenderness, Harvey's stories offer a subtly reflective journey into the meaning of being human.*Why would a man retreat into the Alaskan wilderness while his sister, an Iraq veteran, undergoes reconstructive surgery?*How does a well dug in a remote Indian village forever change the lives of a local woman and the aid worker who loves her?*What will Luisa choose--rat on her boyfriend or go to prison for ten years?*Can a stockbroker transported into prehistory find the sense of community that eluded him in the modern era?*Will the bond of friendship between two men withstand the power of an unspoken truth?